If you are keen to watch the 2nd Round of the FIA GT Championship in Monza this weekend on TV here is a guide for the UK:
Saturday, May 17th 2008
16:00 Men & Motors FIA GT LIVE QUALIFYING
Live coverage of the FIAGT qualifying
Sunday, May 18th 2008
17:30 ITV4 FIA GT RACE
Delayed coverage of the FIA GT race
For most other europen countries, there is a TV guide here: FIA GT TV Guide
Not sure how you guys in the US get to watch sorry
Karl Wendlinger winner of the opening round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone a few weeks ago will team up with his old teammate Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Andrea Piccini at Le Mans this year.
Wendlinger and Frentzen were teammates for Mercedes in the Group C Worldchampionship and then a couple of years later again in Formula 1 with the Sauber team.
This Jetalliance Squad Should make for a pretty compedative outfit
Again, mostly for my own reference here is a motor sport calendar with a few more events in it like NASCAR:
May 2008
9th - 11th FIA Formula 1 Turkish Grand Prix, Istanbul Park, Istanbul, Turkey.
10th NASCAR Dodge Challenger 500, Darlington Raceway, Darlington, USA.
16th - 18th World Rally Championship Rallye d'Italia-Sardegna, Porto Cervo, Italy.
17th - 18th British Touring Car Championship, Thruxton.
17th NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Lowe's Motor Speedway, Concord, USA.
22nd - 25th FIA Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
23rd - 25th IndyCar Series rd 5: 92nd Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
24th - 25th British Rally Championships: Jim Clark International Rally, Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland.
25th NASCAR Coca-Cola 600, Lowe's Motor Speedway, Concord, USA.
29th - 1st June World Rally C [... more]
Again just for my own reference and anyone else who is interested - Here is the main Motorcycling calendar for 2008 which includes MotoGP, World Superbike and the British Superbike championships
May 2008
2nd - 4th MotoGP rd 4, Shanghai, China.
3rd - 5th British Superbike Championship rd 3, Oulton Park.
9th - 11th World Superbike Championship rd 5, Monza, Italy.
10th - 11th British Superbike Championship rd 4, Brands Hatch (GP).
16th - 18th MotoGP rd 5, Le Mans, France.
24th - 26th British Superbike Championship rd 5, Donington Park GP Circuit.
30th - 1st June World Superbike Championship rd 6, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
30th - 1st June MotoGP rd 6, Mugello, Italy.
June 2008
6th - 8th MotoGP rd 7, Citcuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
13th - 15th World Superbike Championship rd 7, Nurburgring, Germany.
13th - 15th British Superbike Championship rd 6, Snet [... more]
Just a quick post to remind me when to look out for the races on the telly, and if anyone else is interested:
FIA GT Championship Calendar 2008
1 Sunday, April 20th 2008 [GBR] Great Britain Silverstone
2 Sunday, May 18th 2008 [ITA] Italy Monza
3 Saturday, June 21st 2008 [ITA] Italy Adria
4 Sunday, July 6th 2008 [GER] Germany Oschersleben
5 Sunday, August 3rd 2008 [BEL] Belgium Spa-Francorchamps
6 Sunday, August 24th 2008 [ROM] Romania Bucharest
7 Sunday, September 14th 2008 [CZE] Czech Republic Brno
8 Sunday, October 5th 2008 [FRA] France Nogaro
9 Sunday, October 19th 2008 [BEL] Belgium Zolder
10 Sunday, November 23rd 2008 [ARG] Argentina San Luis
... my dream car
1967 Shelby Cobra GT350 Mustang
Sigh If I win the lottery one day this classic will be mine :-)
Ford asked Carol Shelby to build a high performance race car based on the production Mustang fastback in 1965, the result was this stunning 1967 Shelby Cobra GT350 Mustang.
Early versions of Shelby's have the two "Guardsman Blue" racing strips that run the length of the car.
And check out the beautiful interior:
(images obtained from http://www.mustangdreams.com)
Well the first race in the GTx series for Novices held at Brno was a disaster for me, as well as slightly encouraging, if that makes any sense?.
It showed me that I am still a real Novice at this, still I think probably the most fun part about Sim racing is learning, learning about setting up a car, driving it faster and then making the correct calls depending on the conditions.
I made a few really basic errors and paid for them dearly - one was to have my radiator opening too closed on a hot day and had to constantly shift early to prevent my engine from going bang and then the worst of all was going out on soft tires which just became impossible to drive pretty quickly.
Still I had fun and know that had I not made some elementary mistakes my finishing position of 14th could easily have been 10th, I qualified 11th, out of a field of 22 which for me is not too bad.
[... more]
Well my fist blog post and thought i'd just say that at the moment I am really getting into Sim Racing, still well off the pace of the top guys and to be honest I cannot figure out how those guys do it. Having said that i am enjoying the racing in the middle/back of the pack and have had some pretty decent scraps of late.
Am entering the GTx series for Novices, and will see how I go there.... more to follow
As the only Zimbabwean that I know of on R2P (sure there are others of you), I wonder how many of you know that there once were two Zimbabwean's (Rhodesian's) who drove in F1!
John Maxwell Lineham Love
John Maxwell Lineham Love was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia on December the 7th 1924 and died recently on April 25th 2005.
And Did you know that John Love was also a multiple World Champion in motor cycle racing - Valentino Rossi eat your heart out!
John Love's first formula 1 race was the 1962 South African Grand Prix held at East London on December 29, driving a Cooper-Climax where he finished 8th. The Two time world champion and father of Damon Hill, Graham Hill went on to win the race.
The only other person from the republic of Rhodesia to successfull [... more]
If anyone is interested, there is live qualifying for the MotoGP in Portugal:
